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Both sides should just accept one anothers beliefs and just stop beating the dead horse. The sooner that happens, the better it will be for everyone. I'm not a supporter of the LGBT and don't think it's way people should live their life, but should they be arrested and beaten - of course not. Everyone should be able to live a happy life, without hurting and offending other people, no matter who they are. If a friend of mine comes out as gay, will i change my attitude towards him, definitely not. The same thing goes for the other side. LGBT people and their supporters should accept, that there are people not sharing their beliefs. If they are not physically and mentally abusing LGBT people, there should be no reason, why those people are constantly labeled as homophobes, bigotes etc. There shouldn't be a reason why Monzanator and Olympian1010 can't sit on the same table, drinking bear, watching sports, talking about movies, books, planets etc., even though they clash on this particular topic.

The half hour show is what they have always shown, at least of the things i remember from the last 10 years. I wouldn't expect something more. It's lost some of it's magic i'm afraid. They would never allow them to do the things that were in Africa nowadays. I still remember a view years ago, there was a rain out day and Eurosport showed archived clips from epic moments from the past. They were one of the most memorable and remarkable sporting moments i have ever seen to this day.

Just can't see Van Gerwen losing to anyone, even if he plays badly.

Good to see that the big names are not boycotting, because it is in Saudi Arabia. Also, let me guess. This is a another big event, which Eurosport is not going to show..

Start lists available?

Also, the bigger reason why the Tour has seen an overall decline in interest is the athletes fault. When they don't take it seriously, why should the fans. Competing only for the sprints and then abandon; Being to far behind in the GC and why bother continuing -> abandon; Not many rest days, too much energy, gonna ruin the rest of the season -> abandon Skip the whole Tour to focus on the other events (Worlds), doing training's or just resting. FIS is only shifting events to try and have the best athletes all competing. The Final Climb mass starts is BS, but i can understand why they are trying to change things.

But don't we have the same thing 27 times in the current way. I'm suggesting to make it at least 17-10. I'm all in, in having more variety in the starts. Why don't make a full knockout start with a tennis bracket? The qualifications are mostly useless, so why not use them to make a top 32 bracket in some events and have a knockout competition over 2 days. Have 4 such weekends in a season, one in each month and have a small globe for the jumper with the most points from the 4 competitions.

In my experience, the main reason people start losing interest in sports is because of the athletes. Either their favorites don't compete anymore, or someone who they don't like starts dominating. It's not because of the disciplines, the schedules or the procedures. If there is no one you are invested in, it's very hard to get behind the race. Like you said, you were most interested in the Lukas Bauer era. Because you were growing up with him, and he is czech and he was winning. It's easy when things align in such a perfect way to be hooked up in the race every year. If he was competing in presented day, you probably wouldn't mind the sprints and Mass starts that much. This is so much true for me. If i look 10 years in the past, football, tennis and F1 were my top 3 sports all the time. Now those three are almost completely ignored by me and pretty much reduced to checking the scores and highlights here and there.

The knockout system is much more interesting, than the normal one. I don't know why, they still don't use it in more events. At least in the so-called "mini tours" or the Raw Air. And the normal system can be used for the individual WC starts, which are not affiliated with a bigger classification.

How is that?

Snowboard has basically the same 3 events in half-pipe, big air and slopestyle, where the same athletes can compete. It's bad enough they cut a Parallel event for them. Why should they deserve an increase in the quotas? The same can be said for Freestyle, where they even have Aerials. They should be happy to be under the FIS umbrella, because they got all those events in the Olympic program. There are enough chances for Australia, China, UK etc. to have their medals now.

Cut the "urban" sports, keep alpine and cross-country the same.

Not Asia again

Water Polo for me. Handball contests have the advantage of being in december/january, when there is nothing else. If they were in another part of the year, we wouldn't be having so many of them..

Why does Val D'Isere keep the same slot or even get starts at all, when there are countles problems and cancellations year after year. I am watching alpine for 15 years and i can't recall there being a season where everything goes smooth there...

So many people for today If only all races had such atmosphere and not just for biathlon, but for other winter sports as well. It makes any race more enjoyable.

The bookies know their stuff. Trump is odds on favourite against anyone. Hi will easily win next year.

If there was a bulgarian in the Worlds, he'd have to be throwing on the back of Grigor Dimitrov to be mentioned in the media.

So sad seeing Barney losing last night I hope he is going to be mentally OK, because the stuff he has said seems worrying. Depression is a serious problem. Quite a few surprises so far, interesting tournament right from the get go. A damn big shame no TV is showing darts here anymore... Got to look for streams and links just to catch some action...

This won't be RVB last night, he will beat Young He has a decent chance to make the fourth round, so please take it.

It's such a stupid ban You can compete in all events, but if you qualify, there will be a white flag next to your name. Russia can play in the football World Cup qualification and if they go to Qatar it would be a neutral team/nation Almost anyone can still go and win medals, they just won't count towards Russia, but in the end everyone, who keeps up the statistics will still count them towards Russia's historical count and it won't make any difference. So what will happen to all the quotas they have won for Tokyo. Let's say wrestling, where they have 9 quotas for now. Will they be scrapped, how will they be replaced, will they be allowed to compete in the other categories next year, in which OQT, as neutral team in the specific european region.... That counts for every other sport, where the russian participation has messed up other athletes/nations chanced of qualifying. I don't like outside BS, which messes up the sporting flow of the competitions, results, records. You either ban only the athletes, for who you have proof, or you ban the whole nation, if it's a stateside machine. If you are russian, you don't compete period. Thank your country or change your nationality and never compete for Russia again.

I feel a new US star is coming. That was two perfect runs by Ford Kristoffersen still without a win in Beaver Creek, and he did good. Won't be happy again

Who doesn't miss Bode Our commentators on the other hand, whenever there is a GS always mention Blardone and Simoncelli People here really like them.

I wonder how many people will pass until Pinturault is not last.